Battery Meltdown!

wallynm wrote:
If these are the 6 volt house batteries and there should be 4 of them. If so I just paid 165 exchange for them this summer. If they are the 2-12 volt chassis batteries then 200 exchange is about right.

Keep the water level correct and when connected to your house check the water level about once a month.

Any good automotive parts store should have them or can get them. Try NAPA and take you old batteries with you as core charge.

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If it will start and run then I suggest you can drive it anywhere you want to go. This indicates it is the house batteries that are bad.

luv2dsgn wrote:
We recently purchased our friend's '98 Dutch Star motor home.

After a few weeks we smelled what seemed to be a black water issue, and then discovered that the cabin batteries (plugged into our house) were going through melt down with sulfur steaming out of the top of one of them. There was also swelling on the sides of the case.

We began trying to replace these batteries, but have found it difficult to locate. We also discovered they can run over $200 each! (OUCH!!!) :(

The batteries needing to be replaced are Freightliner Commercial Maintenance Free H9.

Any thoughts or suggestions???:h

Also, is it OK to drive this beast across town into storage without these batteries installed until we can replace them?:h

Please advise.
Thanks!

where did you find 6 volt RV batteyrs for 41$ each?? also a #9 series as the op has is a 12 volt battery and hes also not talking about chassis batterys if you were to read and observe his posts properly